Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has deployed around the United States. Almost all of...

I didn't know Epstein was a predator - Norway's crown princessNorway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has told the country's national broadcaster that she wishes she had never met late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, breaking seven weeks of silence after the extent of her contact with him emerged.Mette-Marit made the comments in a 20-minute interview in which she was often on the verge of...

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale Earlier this month, NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts to orbit the moon and used new laser communications systems to beam dramatic images back to Earth. One of the receivers, though, wasn’t hosted by the U.S. space agency. A low-cost terminal built by the companies Observable Space and Quantum Opus, and...

WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags WhatsApp is adding prepaid phone recharges in India in a move to get more users to transact within the app, even as it struggles to gain meaningful ground in a payments market dominated by Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay. On Thursday, WhatsApp said it is partnering with fintech firm PayU to roll out prepaid...

DR Congo and Rwanda agree to ease tensions after talks in USAFP via Getty ImagesM23 rebels still control large parts of eastern DR CongoThe Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to take "concrete steps" to ease tensions amid a stalled peace process, after talks hosted by the US in Washington.Conflict in eastern DR Congo has continued despite the two countries signing a peace deal...